• @[email protected]
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      39 months ago

      when one of your favorite tracks from an album gets used in a commercial.

      There’s a cover of Aerosmith’s Dream On that’s sung by a scandinavian performer in that rich, deep, lush way you expect, and it sounds beautiful.

      https://youtu.be/nAoCHQkQLGc

      It’s the typical “take a rock song and slow it down for a solo” thing they do with every song on those amateur-with-celebrity-judges talent shows, but it sounds actually natural and real instead of this generation’s Aguilaran Vocal Gymnastics. But she only did it for the commercial.

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      49 months ago

      Any brand willing to risk it for the biscuit by using Skullgrid in an advert is ok by me.

      Band I love gets money, brand gets… confused public?

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      I just love hearing the recent sonic commercials because at the end you can hear the unmistakable voice of Marc Rebillet (Loop Daddy) for a fraction of a second saying “wanna live free” and I get so happy knowing his music wasn’t tarnished by commercialism, but he likely made bank of that 1 second line.

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        49 months ago

        Knowing those two, they probably love the irony of a corporation paying money to use RTJ’s anti-capitalistic, transgressive songs in an ad, let alone a brand like Cadillac.

        But hey, it’s “ju$t” money

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            59 months ago

            That’s a good point. I’m familiar with the concept, but didn’t realize it had been formalized so distinctly, so I suppose you’re right.

            It’s interesting, though, because one would think that’s there’s always going to be a balancing act between wanting to make your message more well known and wanting to keep it unadulterated.

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        49 months ago

        That’s a DJ Shadow track featuring Run The Jewels.

        For obvious reasons only the music is used.

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          True. Oddly enough I’ve been a DJ Shadow fan since discovering Endtroducing in the late 90s

          Also RTJ’s stuff has been featured in other commercials.

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      Microsoft blasting “Cherry Lips” was surreal.

      Some stupid bastards used “Blitzkrieg Bop.”

      Marketing robots must open Genius.com and search for any chorus with the word go.

      … an uncomfortable number of years ago the US Marines used a Godsmack song that I was only mostly sure wasn’t “Sick Of Life.”

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        49 months ago

        I always feel old when they’re playing Ramones over the loudspeakers at the grocery store.

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          29 months ago

          Been there. Walking through Publix, looking at the wall of bread, surprised I like the muzak for once. “But I won’t cry for yesterday, there’s an ordinary world, somehow I have to OH NOOOO”